### Chapter 59: Deliora
Hearing Riku's words, Gray, Lucy, and Happy were all dumbfounded.
"Really?!!"
Only Natsu looked excited, as if he believed what Riku said. Destroying the moon sounded too thrilling.
"No no no! That's impossible, right! No matter how strong Riku is, he can't possibly destroy the moon!"
Gray shook his head and waved his hands frantically. Anyone with a bit of common sense knew this was impossible.
"Then think properly. This mission is super simple for me. Don't you want to become S-Class Mages? If you can't even handle such a simple mission, how can you go to the second floor? How can you get the Master's approval?"
Riku glanced at Natsu contemptuously.
Natsu immediately got furious: "I will definitely complete this mission!!"
"Fine, I'll only give you one day. If you haven't completed the mission by this time tomorrow, don't blame me for taking over. After all, I don't have that much time to waste. Good night."
After speaking, Riku lay down directly to sleep.
When he heard 'Demon Island', Riku already had an impression. After seeing the purple moon in the sky and those demon villagers, he recalled this plot segment.
After all, this was the first S-Class mission in the anime, and the only one shown in detail, so his memory was quite deep.
The next morning, Riku opened his eyes and saw the others with dark circles under their eyes, looking listless.
"Hmm? What happened to you guys?"
Lucy, sporting dark circles, said: "We discussed all night how to lift the curse, but ended up not sleeping."
Riku smiled and asked: "So did you come up with a result?"
They shook their heads.
"I think we should investigate on the island. This situation only appeared three years ago. There must have been some unknown change on this island three years ago. What do you think?"
"I have no objections."
Seeing Riku didn't object, they left the village together.
"Riku, can you really destroy the moon?"
Natsu asked curiously. The solution proposed last night was to destroy the moon, but it was rejected by Gray and Lucy.
"Of course that was a joke! Besides, even if I could really destroy the moon, I couldn't do it! If I destroyed it, there would be no way to view the moon later."
"That's right! Then the Fairy Tail limited edition special moon-viewing steak would be gone too!!"
"If my moon-viewing dried fish is gone, that won't do."
Lucy looked at their relaxed faces and truly admired these guys: "I'm really convinced. You have no sense of tension at all. This is a terrifying curse! I don't want to become like that."
"What's there to be afraid of about a curse? If it dares to come, I'll burn it to ashes!"
"Then I'll freeze it into an ice block!"
"I'll shock it cooked."
"Aye!"
"Are you all idiots?!"
Lucy felt a headache. One after another, were all Fairy Tail boys idiots?
Suddenly, a rustling sound came from the forest, attracting everyone's attention.
Immediately after, a giant mouse wearing a maid outfit suddenly burst out of the woods.
"A mouse!!"
"So big——!!"
At this moment, the giant mouse took a deep breath, its cheeks bulging.
"It looks like it's going to spit."
Natsu often breathed fire, so he was very familiar with this posture.
Lucy immediately urged: "Solve it quickly!"
Gray put his hands in a Molding Magic stance: "Bastard! Use my Ice Shield..."
Swooosh————!!
The giant mouse spat out a mouthful of foul breath.
"Waaaaah!!"
"So stinky!! Why is it so stinky!!"
"Run quickly———!!"
The group was immediately chased by the giant mouse, fleeing in embarrassment.
"Lightning!"
CRACK———!
A blue-white lightning bolt fell from the sky, landing on the giant mouse.
BOOM———!
"Squeak————!!"
The mouse let out a painful scream, its entire body's fur charred as it fell to the ground.
"Beautifully done!!"
"Beat it while it's down!!"
Natsu and Gray rushed to the fainted giant mouse and punched and kicked its head.
"..."
Lucy watched speechlessly. Their desire for revenge was too strong.
After a while, Natsu and Gray stopped, and the group continued forward. Soon, ruins appeared in front of them.
They walked in. The ruins were huge but very dilapidated. The walls were covered with cracks, and some pillars had shattered due to age, scattered on the ground.
Trees broke through the floor rocks, growing stubbornly. With just a glance, one could judge that these ruins were very old and had been abandoned for a long time.
"Look, there are moon-like patterns here."
At this time, Natsu noticed some moon pattern decorations on the walls and ruin pillars.
"Isn't this island called Moon Island? It should be related to that."
"Moon Island, Moon Curse, Moon Crest... could there be a connection?"
"Speaking of which, it looks broken here. Is the floor really sturdy?"
Natsu stomped his foot hard on the floor twice.
CRACK———!
The floor shattered with a crash. A large hole appeared in the ground, and they immediately fell down. Riku, not paying attention, also suffered.
"You idiot!!"
"The floor has no backbone, too weak!!"
"How can a floor have a backbone?!"
Thud thud thud!!
They fell onto the ground below one after another.
Crash!
Riku emerged from the rubble, somewhat dusty. Annoyed, he slapped Natsu on the head: "You fool! Consider the consequences before you act next time!!"
Lucy complained: "It seems you're not one to talk..."
Although Natsu acted without considering consequences every time, this guy Riku was even worse than Natsu. He destroyed half of Hargeon Port as soon as he acted, or destroyed a train.
Suddenly, Happy pointed in a direction with a shocked face and shouted: "Everyone! Look over there!!"
"What is it?"
They looked in the direction Happy pointed and saw a giant monster currently frozen in ice inside the cave.
Gray's pupils shrank seeing the monster, and he shouted somewhat losing composure:
"Deliora!!!"
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